A revised checklist of the Scathophagidae, Fanniidae and Muscidae recorded from Finland is presented. Phaoniaamicula Villeneuve, 1922 is noted from Finland for the first time.

Cordilura Fallén, 1810 is one of the largest genera within the family Scathophagidae. According to new species descriptions and recent catalogues (e.g. Šifner, 2008), the genus currently comprises 86 species in the World distributed primarily in the Holarctic Region: 50 species are known in Palaearctic and 43 in Nearctic, with 7 species with a Holarctic distribution; and other 2 species are rec...

Muscoidea is a significant dipteran clade that includes house flies (Family Muscidae), latrine flies (F. Fannidae), dung flies (F. Scathophagidae) and root maggot flies (F. Anthomyiidae). It is comprised of approximately 7000 described species. The monophyly of the Muscoidea and the precise relationships of muscoids to the closest superfamily the Oestroidea (blow flies, flesh flies etc) are bot...

A new species, Cordilura flavotibialis sp. n. (Diptera: Scathophagidae), is described and illustrated based on specimen from Khabarovsky Krai. Characteristics for the differentiation of species other are given.

based on specimens collected from east azerbaijan province during 2009-2012, five genera and nine species of the family scathophagidae are recognized. eight species including: cordilura rufipes (meigen, 1826), gimnomera montana ozerov et krivosheina, 2013, norellisoma spinimana (fallén, 1819), parallelomma albipes (fallén, 1819), scathophaga kaszabi (šifner, 1975), scathophaga lutaria (fabriciu...

The yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria (L.) (Diptera: Scathophagidae) is a widespread and locally abundant fly associated with the dung of large mammals, especially farm animals. This species has recently become a standard test organism for evaluating toxic effects of veterinary pharmaceuticals in livestock dung. In this context, a review of its natural history and a general description of...

When conducting inter–species regression analyses, the phylogenetic relationships between the individual species need to be taken into account. In this paper, a procedure for conducting such analyses is proposed, which only requires the use of a measure of relationship between pairs of species, rather than a complete phylogeny, and which at the same time assesses the importance to be attached t...